War on terror

National Security received information about terror camp: MoI

Egypt’s Ministry of Interior (MoI) said in a statement on Friday that the security forces launched an operation to attack a camp of terrorists 135km south of Cairo in the Wahat desert in Egypt’s Western Desert, after the National Security received information about the camp.

Egyptian police officers were killed in clashes between security forces and the militants. According to Reuters’ quoting three security sources, the clashes were an ambush by the militants to attack the security forces.

Security expert Abdel-Rafea Darwish told Daily News Egypt that the security operation suffered from lack of information about evaluating power of the enemy and the topography of the place where the militants were camping.